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Life insurance industry experienced worldwide growth last year

Julie Campbell
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A new Swiss Re report has shown that there was a global gain in this sector, despite only slight economic improvement. Swiss Re, the global reinsurance company, has recently released a report that has shown that the global life insurance industry had managed to gain momentum in 2014, even though the economic situation saw only the slightest growth. The total number of direct premiums that were written increased by 4.3 percent. This is particularly notable following the trend in 2013, in which the total number of direct premiums written had…

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Life insurance industry growth in Singapore flattens

H. Cutner
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The results from the first quarter of this year have shown that the total weighted premiums stumbled by 1 percent. Life Insurance Association Singapore has released its data from the first quarter of 2015 and what it has shown is that the industry has experienced a flattened growth rate at the same time that its total weighted premiums fell by a small 1 percent when compared to the same quarter in 2014. When all was said and done, the total weighted life premiums in Q1 arrived at about US$488.68 million…

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Life insurance market in Kenya now includes Barclays

H. Cutner
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The formal entry into the country’s marketplace has now begun with a brand new launch. Barclays Africa Group Limited has now launched Barclays Life Assurance Kenya (in which it has a majority ownership of 66.6 percent), representing its formal entrance into that country’s life insurance market. This represents the fifth market in Africa into which Barclays has established its insurance business in that sector. The other African markets into which Barclays has taken its first steps include Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, and Mozambique. Among the other shareholders in this life…

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Life insurance controversy sparked in the United Kingdom

S.Vagus
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Financial Conduct Authority criticized for breaking its own rules The Financial Conduct Authority, a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, may have mishandled its review of the life insurance industry last year, according to a report from a committee of members of the British Parliament. The report is the latest development in ongoing controversy regarding the Financial Conduct Authority’s plans to review the life insurance sector. This review has had a significant impact on the sector, with the regulatory body wiping some $4 billion off the value of insurance…

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Life insurance won’t be impacted by doctor-assisted suicide ruling

Julie Campbell
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An industry association has said that the Canadian court decision won’t have a significant affect. An insurance industry association has released a statement with regards to the potential affect on life insurance of the very recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that has overturned the previous ban that had prohibited doctor-assisted suicide. The association said that the impact that will occur on that industry will not be a significant one. The ruling from the top Canadian court was made on Friday, in a unanimous decision to strike down…

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